Excerpt from Literature for Beginners: Containing Biographies of the Most Prominent Authors, British and American, With Extracts From Their Writings; Also, Gems of Thought, Birthdays of Authors, Pseudonyms, Contemporaneous Writers, Etc Brief extracts are given in connection with each author, in order that the learner may associate author and thought. This same plan is pursued in treating briefly of the contemporaneous writers of the different ages or periods. Wherever it has been found possible to link the author with some brilliant, wise or beautiful thought that is found in his writings, the two have been associated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.